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Spectre@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago

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Spectre@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago
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  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    People love getting high on nostalgia when things aren’t looking up well in the present moment. Even many of those who were under fascism are nostalgic of it. That’s the point of nostalgia: only remembering the good parts of the past while pretending the bad never happened.

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      “sure, the people living there say that it was better under communism, but obviously they’re too stupid and foreign to know what they think. Only I, the enlightened westerner, can truly judge if things are better, which I will do based on vague vibes that I can’t identify the source of”

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          That’s literally the opposite of what happened here, you dumbass

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            BrainInAWesternerBox larping as BrainInAnEasternerBox.

            • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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              Most intellectual anti communist

        • Oppopity@lemmy.ml
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          “People hated living under communism just ask them”

          Actually you’ll find most people preferred living under communism

          “They’re just blinded by nostalgia”

          So you can’t just ask people about what it was like under communism?

          “No you can, if you did you’d find they all hated it”

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            “I like to say I love communism without under duress.”

            “I love communism not because I am a card-carrying party member.”

            “The fact that more people fled from communist countries than coming in means those people are crazy.”

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              Least incoherent anti communist

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                I mean, sure, those who clawed their way out of the Berlin Wall, vault poled over electric fences in the DMZ, defected with a top secret Soviet plane as insurance to be allowed to stay in the West, and swam the Caribbean to desperately leave communist countries surely love communism.

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                  You don’t even remember what the point of discussion was, lol.

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                    I do. You are talking about how communism is so great, that I am vindicating you how Westerners were desperately risking their lives to get to communist countries.

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      That doesn’t explain the rise of communist party membership, nor can you wash away the fact that quality of life metrics were higher in the soviet union for the most part than they are today in post-soviet countries.

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        The metrics probably doesn’t include those who were in gulags and died of famines.

        The rise in communist party membership you speak of maybe increased by 100%, when two new members joined an already two member communist party.

        Wake me up when communist slogans are getting viral on Tiktok and Instagram, and if communists are getting elected in huge numbers on national level across the world.

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          The metrics probably doesn’t include those who were in gulags and died of famines

          Yes they do, you confidently incorrect, arrogant moron.

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          They do. For starters, famine was ended after the. 1930s (outside of World War II), and prison death rates weren’t astronomically high nor were prison populations particularly high either.

          • As for increase in communist party membership, over four years, more than 63,000 people have become CPRF members, with most of the new recruits being young people under 30 and “people of prime working age.”.

          • “We are now seeing not just nostalgia for the past, but a conscious choice by millions of citizens in favor of the socialist path of development,”

          • We restored all ties with the Communist Parties of China, Vietnam, the DPRK, with India, with the Arab countries, with Latin America, with Cuba, with Venezuela, with Nicaragua.

          • The expansion and astronomical growth of grassroot movements like the Inmortal Regiment. This movement grew so large that plenty of countries around the world organized a similar march. It started small until it grew in a international movement.

          There are other examples, but it’s clearly on the rise.

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